St. Boniface residents say metal shredder is polluting air, harming health
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Province says neighbourhood is safe, but residents and environmental researcher disagree. Story here.
Conservative MP Absent From a Child Poverty Forum in Southwestern Manitoba.
Are hungry kids a priority for the Harper government? by Larry Powell The forum (for the riding of Dauphin - Swan River - Neepawa) was sponsored by the Mission and Services Committee of the Neepawa United Church. It drew about 80 people to the church on Wednesday. But only four of the five candidates (see below) took part in the debate - Ray Piché (Liberal), Kate Storey (Green Party), Inky Mark (Ind.) and Laverne Lewycky (NDP) . The 5th candidate, the sitting Conservative MP for the area, Robert Sopuck (represented by the empty chair on the right), did not attend. His office manager in Neepawa, Christine Waddell, said he was in Inglis, a small community in the western part of the riding for the evening. She did not elaborate. But she did explain that a campaign worker was mistaken when he told forum organizers earlier that Mr. Sopuck would, in fact be there. Piché , the Liberal candidate, said the MP's absence showed “disrespect” for the rest of the candidates
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Labossiere said the "air monitoring regime we did was not necessarily intended to be super accurate and super precise," and he's standing by the conclusions of his report.
"At least with this situation we are confident that the impacts do not exist, or are minimal," he said, and added that if the report had shown otherwise, the department would have stepped up its monitoring"
It is a sad situation…. that there is no-one in this present government who cares and looks after the people, the environment and our water sources. The "Development Minister " as a replacement for Conservation and Water Issues, as in previous governments hasn't shown or dedicated much of her time to these most important issues.